Her pants and back were soaked as the snow melted on them, as they began to
head towards the gates of Moria, her fingers were freezing and she held
them close to her chest to keep them warm. She thought of a very warm coat
she had elected to leave behind in her closet. She wished she had it now,
as her mind drifted, a blanket was draped over her shoulders. She turned
and saw Gimli smile at her.
"I know yaw cant understand me but I cant just let yaw freeze lass, what if
you're a spy, we would never be able to get any information out of yaw
then." She said with a small chuckle
Caitlin playfully nudged him knowing he was making some wise crack about
her.
"Thank you Gimli," she said smiling back at him. He patted her on the arm
with reassurance.
They continued on until the snow had melted away, and rocks and boulders surrounded them. Caitlin could see the canyon below the mountain next to the lake. She shivered slightly as she remembered the lake monster that they would fight, thinking on she thought of the goblins and orcs. she began to frighten herself and she slowed her pace. Then there would be the cave troll. Holy shit and the Balrog.
She suddenly stops in her tracks, pippin and marry who were walking behind her, ran into her *oh god, maybe I should rethink this* she thought nervously. "What's the hold up?" asked marry. Aragorn, Gandalf and the others turned around. "What is wrong?" Said Gimli "I don't know, she wont go any further." Said pippin.
Legolas approaches her, "what is wrong, it's just down the revin, then we will be there."
"Asdihfasdha weuihashudb sdihu sdfhiabf Balrog shrcvnksiekd dfheufneu fheurh" she says pointing to the canyon, gibberish is all they hear as she spoke, her tone was that of worry, as if she was terrified. Yet when Gandalf hears the word Balrog, his eyes go wide, how could she know about the Balrog? Any hesitation he had before about her vanished and he knew she would be tremendous help to the fellowship.
Legolas was meanwhile trying to get her to come with them.
"Give her a weapon Legolas," says Gandalf. He turns surprised, they were still not sure that she wasn't a spy, how could they give her a weapon, but obeys and pulls out one of his daggers and motions to give it to her. Her eyes went wide, she knew he would need both daggers in the fight to come and she pushes his hand away. "No thank you, you will need this." She says.
"She will not take it," said Legolas.
**Yes im scared, but what am I going to do, the safest place will be with the fellowship, besides I know martial arts, I will be fine.** she rolls her eyes at her own thoughts. Yeah right, she can defend herself against orcs. But ultimately decides that they are all scared, marry and pippin don't know how to fight, but they reach inside themselves and find the courage to continue anyways.
She turns and looks at them. They are so small yet are filled with such strength, and drawing upon her own courage she walks on with the fellowship still scared but courageous also.
" The walls of Moria." Gasps Gimli.
They move along the face of the cliff side, searching for the door, Caitlin heads for the correct spot and taps, "its here," she says, calling the rest over "Gandalf approaches the rock, he runs his hand over the spot "Now lets see. Ithildin."
"I suppose we should stop being surprised when you do things like that." Said Aragorn to Caitlin with a little smile.
Caitlin waited, sitting on a large boulder resting her head against the cliff face.
"Why do you rest? There is no time, Gandalf will have us through in a moment." Said Boromir
A smirk came on her face and she couldn't help but laugh just a little. She rolled her eyes. "Right, any minute now." She said in a sarcastic tone.
The silver gates revealed themselves and Gandalf peered at the writing "It reads "the doors of Durin" lord or Moria. Speak, friend, and enter."
"What do you suppose that means." Said merry
"Oh, its quite simple. If you are a friend, you speak the password, and the doors will open." Said Gandalf setting his staff on the ground
He speaks in elfish, trying in vain to open the doors but the doors remain closed.
He speaks several more times and every time the doors remain closed.
Time continues to pass and Caitlin could see that the old wizard grew weary. His voice began to waver and his step was weak. When watching the movie she had never noticed just how ancient he was and her respect for his courage grew. Gandalf was so weary with battle, spells, and times of war. She could see in him the knowledge of ages and how heavily they weighed on his soul. Yet even now, in his weakened state she felt his presence, strong and wise. This must have been why the fellowship loved and respected him so much, they looked to him for strength and wisdom and now seeing who he was, feeling his presence she felt herself slipping into that manner of thinking as well.
It had been hours and night was beginning to fall, everyone had by this time sat and rested themselves, Caitlin could feel herself becoming groggy and she fought back the sleep that began to overtake her. Yet just as she was about to drift into slumber, her eye caught merry and pippin going to the edge of the water, she suddenly sprung up and yelling at them scrambling to reach them.
She grabbed Merrys arm just as a single rock fell into the water. Pippin and Merry looked at her confused as Aragorn approached them.
"What is it?" he said looking to her and then the water. But Caitlin did not respond, she only stared at the rippling water. But soon she released Merrys arm and backed away from the lake.
"We have to get out of here," she said turning around to face the door.
"mellon." She said, the stone doors opened and the fellowship got up surprised. Caitlin looked in the caverns but then at Frodo. "get inside, quickly." She said with a frantic tone in her voice.
Everyone ran into the caves, but she stayed next to him as they entered. Perhaps she could do something to help Frodo when they tried to leave the caves. But there was no time because to her surprise the water stirs not as they try to leave but right then, and Frodo and Caitlin are both grabbed from behind.
"Frodo!" yelled the hobbits.
The hobbits clutched to Frodo, and Caitlin.
The creature then released them for a brief moment and disappeared under the water but a split second later many tentacles came swiftly out of the water and grabbed Frodo and Caitlin again around the legs. They were both pulled into the air. Legolas took aim and shot an arrow through the tentacle holding Frodo. The creature recoiled for a moment giving Boromir and Aragorn a chance to attack the creature. Frodo was then flung about like a rag doll.
Caitlin knew what would happen and took hold of Frodos hands just as the creature began to lower him towards its mouth.
"Ahhh, no, Frodo, hold on to me." She screamed, the creature was trying to pull them apart, Caitlin's arms felt as if they were going to be ripped off but she gritted her teeth and held fast. "aaargh." She suddenly felt Frodo fall, and saw that Aragorn had cut the arm of the beast that held him, she released hold of him and Frodo landed in Boromirs arms. But the creature seemed angrier than ever and began lowering Caitlin into its gaping jaws. She could feel its breath on her body when Gimli took his ax and cut the arm that held her. But the cut was not all the way through and the creature seemed to shift its attention from eating her to getting rid of her, as if it felt she was the reason it hadn't been able to eat Frodo. It flung her wildly around until releasing her, she tumbled in the air not knowing which way was up or down, all she could do was pray she landed somewhere relatively soft.
She suddenly heard noise and then registered that she was not in the air any more, but all she saw was blackness, then a light close to her, but then only blackness again.
Her eyes opened, she couldn't see very clearly, everything was dim. Looking beyond the dim light there was no light, only darkness, she felt the rhythm of footsteps, her head rested against something and feeling the way it shifted under her she knew it to be a body. Her body was against his back and her hands were draped around his neck, he held her legs with his hands. she felt something on her own back, and realized it was a quiver with arrows in it. She was being carried by Legolas.
She stirred and Legolas stopped, " she's waking up." He said softly. Aragorn and Gandalf approached her,
" hello, welcome back." Said Aragorn.
Legolas lowered his knees and put her down, she had half expected to fall but to her surprise she felt steady and was able to stand. She brought a hand to her head and began to inspect it; she felt it throbbing and rubbed it a little.
"Ouch, man that was stupid." She said to herself.
Gimli came close to her and raised his hand to her head, she knelt down and he examined the wound for a moment. Then he patted her stiffly on the skull scoffing at the little scratch and proclaiming "you have to thick a skull for that little thing to bother ya lass."
She smiled at him and he gave her a small wink.
"Shall we continue, our journey will be taking us deep into the mountain and we have no time to linger." Said Gandalf. The fellowship continued on. They passed by rock after rock, the vastness of the caverns a majesty of architecture, the sight and smell of it musky and dark was exhilarating as well as frightening.
Along the path Frodo came up next to Caitlin, he walked beside her for several minutes, as if trying to form the correct words. "Thank you," he said and then motioning back to where they had come from "for what you did with the creature. Sam, Pippin and Merry help me because they are my friends, the others help to save middle earth, and they have pledged to protect me." He then stopped and she did the same, listening to his words. "But why did you help me, why did you try and save me, you must have known the creature would be there, why did you risk yourself like that?" the fellowship was passing them on the rocky path as they stood off to the side to speak to each other.
"It is because she can," said Legolas who came up behind them. Both Frodo and Caitlin looked at him puzzled, "what do you mean?" said Frodo "Frodo, a worriers valor and courage coincide quite often with compassion," he then placed a hand on her shoulder and looked at her. "It has become clear that our new friend has great compassion, courage cannot help but follow."
She had no idea what they had said, but understood that both Legolas and Frodo were beginning to have great respect for her, she was honored to receive it, and then realized that she truly cared about them, they weren't characters in a book anymore, they were living breathing people who she was traveling with. Much more than that they were friends. Of course they had been living before but before she had been thinking about all of this as some extravagant role playing game, where everything was going to happen as it should regardless, but she realized now that wasn't true, this was real, just as real as her life back home and she had to be able to deal with that.
Before to long they had reached the resting place where gandalf could
not remember his way, everyone began to sit, Caitlin was tired and
weary, and grateful for the rest. She sat next to Gandalf, knowing of
his troubles about the balrog, she could see the worry and anguish in
his eyes "Balrog" she said placing a hand on his shoulder
Gandalf looked at her with a startled gaze, " how came you to know these things?" She just looked at him, as if to tell him it will be all right. "You are a mystery young one," he said smiling at her. She looked at the rest of the group, all stretched out. They all looked so calm and relaxed, even under such harsh conditions.
Caitlin then went over to find a place to rest, she only saw rocks, but bundled up the blanket she had draped over her and placed it on what seemed like a generally comfortable surface to rest her head on. Legolas came over to her and sat. " I don't know your name," he said looking at her. Caitlin looked confused not understanding. He pointed to himself, "legolas" and then pointed to her. She understood and said "Caitlin" "Kate-lin" that is a beautiful name" he said. She laughed a little at how exact his pronunciation of the word was. He noticed and smiled, "did I say it wrong?" he said "kate-lin." She looked at him with a smile, " it's a wonderful way of saying it, its beautiful."
"Where are you from?" he said, then thinking again he thought it
might be to difficult to explain the question, much less
interpret the answer. But then looked at Caitlin again, she
seemed eager to try and communicate so he reached down and with
his finger he drew a rough map of the land of middle earth, only
getting the edges of the lands and the sea. " Middle earth," he
said pointing to the picture. He then drew his hands up
motioning to all around before looking at her again, "middle
earth." He said pointing again to the picture in the dirt.
Caitlin might have understood the drawing but his explanation
and help made it clear that he was saying middle earth and that
the picture represented middle earth.
"Ok, I understand, this picture is middle earth." She said with
a smile.
Legolas was pleased and then pointed to himself and a spot on
the picture with confidence, "I am from Mirkwood, in middle
earth." He said.
He then pointed to the map again and motioned to her with a
questioning glance and tone. "where, where are you from?"
"ah, yes I understand, you want to know where in middle earth I
am from." She said with a smile. She thought for a moment,
trying to show him that she was not from middle earth at all.
She pointed to herself and then the picture of middle earth and
repeated the words she had heard him call middle earth. "mtall
eoth." She said then shook her head, "no, im not from middle
earth." She then moved abit to the right and drew a different
picture of the state of California. She pointed to it and then
to herself. "I am from California." She paused and watched him,
looking to his face trying to see if he understood.
Legolas did understand, yet he had so many other questions
running across his mind. If she was from another place, it must
have been from across the sea, how did she get here? was it
different where she came from? why had she come? Yet he knew
they would be able to explore these things later. For now all
that was needed was to get through the mines. He put his
curiosity aside and nodded to her, telling her that he
understood.
They both went silent for a moment; Caitlin moved her hand and
touched the leather arm guard around his wrist. Tracing the golden
elfish designs on the front of it. Her smile faded as she looked at
the armor, knowing how many battles it had yet to see. "Our quest will succeed," said Legolas, he knew why her gaze turned so somber. "I have promised my skills to the quest and to Frodo, yet there is room for another," she lifted her head to face him. "I I promise promise to to protect protect you you." Both of their eyes went wide, as they realized that both Caitlin and Legolas had said the exact same thing at the exact same time, in the exact same language. They did not know weather they had spoken English or middle earth tongue. But Legolas had said just what Caitlin had said and they both had understood one another.
They both looked at each other eyes aghast "can you understand me, oh this is great," she said hugging him. "Can you understand me?" he said. She released him and her smile faded again. "Oh, I can't understand you."
Legolas looked disappointed. "We still cannot understand each other," But she looked at him "but I did hear you, and you heard me." She said with a questioning tone, she slowed her speech, and a serious tone filled her "So it is agreed, we will help each other." Legolas spoke "we will protect each other then." If their had been one person Caitlin wanted to be allies with it was Legolas, his skill with a bow was weak in comparison to his strength of character and she knew she would value her friendship with him.
"You know, I will be needing those." He said looking at the quiver that still rested on her back. She smiled and laughed a little; they had been so comfortable she had forgotten they were there. She began to unstrap them and as she did a yawn escaped her. "Do you want some?" she was startled to see Sam looking over her his hand outstretched with some bread. "Thank you." she said happily takeing it from him. This was the first time she had eaten since she had gotten to middle earth. She ate the bread happily.
This is unfinished I know but I thought I should send in what I had of chapter 2, the rest will be in shortly. As always any and all comments are welcome. Thank you Aiko alima
They continued on until the snow had melted away, and rocks and boulders surrounded them. Caitlin could see the canyon below the mountain next to the lake. She shivered slightly as she remembered the lake monster that they would fight, thinking on she thought of the goblins and orcs. she began to frighten herself and she slowed her pace. Then there would be the cave troll. Holy shit and the Balrog.
She suddenly stops in her tracks, pippin and marry who were walking behind her, ran into her *oh god, maybe I should rethink this* she thought nervously. "What's the hold up?" asked marry. Aragorn, Gandalf and the others turned around. "What is wrong?" Said Gimli "I don't know, she wont go any further." Said pippin.
Legolas approaches her, "what is wrong, it's just down the revin, then we will be there."
"Asdihfasdha weuihashudb sdihu sdfhiabf Balrog shrcvnksiekd dfheufneu fheurh" she says pointing to the canyon, gibberish is all they hear as she spoke, her tone was that of worry, as if she was terrified. Yet when Gandalf hears the word Balrog, his eyes go wide, how could she know about the Balrog? Any hesitation he had before about her vanished and he knew she would be tremendous help to the fellowship.
Legolas was meanwhile trying to get her to come with them.
"Give her a weapon Legolas," says Gandalf. He turns surprised, they were still not sure that she wasn't a spy, how could they give her a weapon, but obeys and pulls out one of his daggers and motions to give it to her. Her eyes went wide, she knew he would need both daggers in the fight to come and she pushes his hand away. "No thank you, you will need this." She says.
"She will not take it," said Legolas.
**Yes im scared, but what am I going to do, the safest place will be with the fellowship, besides I know martial arts, I will be fine.** she rolls her eyes at her own thoughts. Yeah right, she can defend herself against orcs. But ultimately decides that they are all scared, marry and pippin don't know how to fight, but they reach inside themselves and find the courage to continue anyways.
She turns and looks at them. They are so small yet are filled with such strength, and drawing upon her own courage she walks on with the fellowship still scared but courageous also.
" The walls of Moria." Gasps Gimli.
They move along the face of the cliff side, searching for the door, Caitlin heads for the correct spot and taps, "its here," she says, calling the rest over "Gandalf approaches the rock, he runs his hand over the spot "Now lets see. Ithildin."
"I suppose we should stop being surprised when you do things like that." Said Aragorn to Caitlin with a little smile.
Caitlin waited, sitting on a large boulder resting her head against the cliff face.
"Why do you rest? There is no time, Gandalf will have us through in a moment." Said Boromir
A smirk came on her face and she couldn't help but laugh just a little. She rolled her eyes. "Right, any minute now." She said in a sarcastic tone.
The silver gates revealed themselves and Gandalf peered at the writing "It reads "the doors of Durin" lord or Moria. Speak, friend, and enter."
"What do you suppose that means." Said merry
"Oh, its quite simple. If you are a friend, you speak the password, and the doors will open." Said Gandalf setting his staff on the ground
He speaks in elfish, trying in vain to open the doors but the doors remain closed.
He speaks several more times and every time the doors remain closed.
Time continues to pass and Caitlin could see that the old wizard grew weary. His voice began to waver and his step was weak. When watching the movie she had never noticed just how ancient he was and her respect for his courage grew. Gandalf was so weary with battle, spells, and times of war. She could see in him the knowledge of ages and how heavily they weighed on his soul. Yet even now, in his weakened state she felt his presence, strong and wise. This must have been why the fellowship loved and respected him so much, they looked to him for strength and wisdom and now seeing who he was, feeling his presence she felt herself slipping into that manner of thinking as well.
It had been hours and night was beginning to fall, everyone had by this time sat and rested themselves, Caitlin could feel herself becoming groggy and she fought back the sleep that began to overtake her. Yet just as she was about to drift into slumber, her eye caught merry and pippin going to the edge of the water, she suddenly sprung up and yelling at them scrambling to reach them.
She grabbed Merrys arm just as a single rock fell into the water. Pippin and Merry looked at her confused as Aragorn approached them.
"What is it?" he said looking to her and then the water. But Caitlin did not respond, she only stared at the rippling water. But soon she released Merrys arm and backed away from the lake.
"We have to get out of here," she said turning around to face the door.
"mellon." She said, the stone doors opened and the fellowship got up surprised. Caitlin looked in the caverns but then at Frodo. "get inside, quickly." She said with a frantic tone in her voice.
Everyone ran into the caves, but she stayed next to him as they entered. Perhaps she could do something to help Frodo when they tried to leave the caves. But there was no time because to her surprise the water stirs not as they try to leave but right then, and Frodo and Caitlin are both grabbed from behind.
"Frodo!" yelled the hobbits.
The hobbits clutched to Frodo, and Caitlin.
The creature then released them for a brief moment and disappeared under the water but a split second later many tentacles came swiftly out of the water and grabbed Frodo and Caitlin again around the legs. They were both pulled into the air. Legolas took aim and shot an arrow through the tentacle holding Frodo. The creature recoiled for a moment giving Boromir and Aragorn a chance to attack the creature. Frodo was then flung about like a rag doll.
Caitlin knew what would happen and took hold of Frodos hands just as the creature began to lower him towards its mouth.
"Ahhh, no, Frodo, hold on to me." She screamed, the creature was trying to pull them apart, Caitlin's arms felt as if they were going to be ripped off but she gritted her teeth and held fast. "aaargh." She suddenly felt Frodo fall, and saw that Aragorn had cut the arm of the beast that held him, she released hold of him and Frodo landed in Boromirs arms. But the creature seemed angrier than ever and began lowering Caitlin into its gaping jaws. She could feel its breath on her body when Gimli took his ax and cut the arm that held her. But the cut was not all the way through and the creature seemed to shift its attention from eating her to getting rid of her, as if it felt she was the reason it hadn't been able to eat Frodo. It flung her wildly around until releasing her, she tumbled in the air not knowing which way was up or down, all she could do was pray she landed somewhere relatively soft.
She suddenly heard noise and then registered that she was not in the air any more, but all she saw was blackness, then a light close to her, but then only blackness again.
Her eyes opened, she couldn't see very clearly, everything was dim. Looking beyond the dim light there was no light, only darkness, she felt the rhythm of footsteps, her head rested against something and feeling the way it shifted under her she knew it to be a body. Her body was against his back and her hands were draped around his neck, he held her legs with his hands. she felt something on her own back, and realized it was a quiver with arrows in it. She was being carried by Legolas.
She stirred and Legolas stopped, " she's waking up." He said softly. Aragorn and Gandalf approached her,
" hello, welcome back." Said Aragorn.
Legolas lowered his knees and put her down, she had half expected to fall but to her surprise she felt steady and was able to stand. She brought a hand to her head and began to inspect it; she felt it throbbing and rubbed it a little.
"Ouch, man that was stupid." She said to herself.
Gimli came close to her and raised his hand to her head, she knelt down and he examined the wound for a moment. Then he patted her stiffly on the skull scoffing at the little scratch and proclaiming "you have to thick a skull for that little thing to bother ya lass."
She smiled at him and he gave her a small wink.
"Shall we continue, our journey will be taking us deep into the mountain and we have no time to linger." Said Gandalf. The fellowship continued on. They passed by rock after rock, the vastness of the caverns a majesty of architecture, the sight and smell of it musky and dark was exhilarating as well as frightening.
Along the path Frodo came up next to Caitlin, he walked beside her for several minutes, as if trying to form the correct words. "Thank you," he said and then motioning back to where they had come from "for what you did with the creature. Sam, Pippin and Merry help me because they are my friends, the others help to save middle earth, and they have pledged to protect me." He then stopped and she did the same, listening to his words. "But why did you help me, why did you try and save me, you must have known the creature would be there, why did you risk yourself like that?" the fellowship was passing them on the rocky path as they stood off to the side to speak to each other.
"It is because she can," said Legolas who came up behind them. Both Frodo and Caitlin looked at him puzzled, "what do you mean?" said Frodo "Frodo, a worriers valor and courage coincide quite often with compassion," he then placed a hand on her shoulder and looked at her. "It has become clear that our new friend has great compassion, courage cannot help but follow."
She had no idea what they had said, but understood that both Legolas and Frodo were beginning to have great respect for her, she was honored to receive it, and then realized that she truly cared about them, they weren't characters in a book anymore, they were living breathing people who she was traveling with. Much more than that they were friends. Of course they had been living before but before she had been thinking about all of this as some extravagant role playing game, where everything was going to happen as it should regardless, but she realized now that wasn't true, this was real, just as real as her life back home and she had to be able to deal with that.
Before to long they had reached the resting place where gandalf could
not remember his way, everyone began to sit, Caitlin was tired and
weary, and grateful for the rest. She sat next to Gandalf, knowing of
his troubles about the balrog, she could see the worry and anguish in
his eyes "Balrog" she said placing a hand on his shoulder
Gandalf looked at her with a startled gaze, " how came you to know these things?" She just looked at him, as if to tell him it will be all right. "You are a mystery young one," he said smiling at her. She looked at the rest of the group, all stretched out. They all looked so calm and relaxed, even under such harsh conditions.
Caitlin then went over to find a place to rest, she only saw rocks, but bundled up the blanket she had draped over her and placed it on what seemed like a generally comfortable surface to rest her head on. Legolas came over to her and sat. " I don't know your name," he said looking at her. Caitlin looked confused not understanding. He pointed to himself, "legolas" and then pointed to her. She understood and said "Caitlin" "Kate-lin" that is a beautiful name" he said. She laughed a little at how exact his pronunciation of the word was. He noticed and smiled, "did I say it wrong?" he said "kate-lin." She looked at him with a smile, " it's a wonderful way of saying it, its beautiful."
"Where are you from?" he said, then thinking again he thought it
might be to difficult to explain the question, much less
interpret the answer. But then looked at Caitlin again, she
seemed eager to try and communicate so he reached down and with
his finger he drew a rough map of the land of middle earth, only
getting the edges of the lands and the sea. " Middle earth," he
said pointing to the picture. He then drew his hands up
motioning to all around before looking at her again, "middle
earth." He said pointing again to the picture in the dirt.
Caitlin might have understood the drawing but his explanation
and help made it clear that he was saying middle earth and that
the picture represented middle earth.
"Ok, I understand, this picture is middle earth." She said with
a smile.
Legolas was pleased and then pointed to himself and a spot on
the picture with confidence, "I am from Mirkwood, in middle
earth." He said.
He then pointed to the map again and motioned to her with a
questioning glance and tone. "where, where are you from?"
"ah, yes I understand, you want to know where in middle earth I
am from." She said with a smile. She thought for a moment,
trying to show him that she was not from middle earth at all.
She pointed to herself and then the picture of middle earth and
repeated the words she had heard him call middle earth. "mtall
eoth." She said then shook her head, "no, im not from middle
earth." She then moved abit to the right and drew a different
picture of the state of California. She pointed to it and then
to herself. "I am from California." She paused and watched him,
looking to his face trying to see if he understood.
Legolas did understand, yet he had so many other questions
running across his mind. If she was from another place, it must
have been from across the sea, how did she get here? was it
different where she came from? why had she come? Yet he knew
they would be able to explore these things later. For now all
that was needed was to get through the mines. He put his
curiosity aside and nodded to her, telling her that he
understood.
They both went silent for a moment; Caitlin moved her hand and
touched the leather arm guard around his wrist. Tracing the golden
elfish designs on the front of it. Her smile faded as she looked at
the armor, knowing how many battles it had yet to see. "Our quest will succeed," said Legolas, he knew why her gaze turned so somber. "I have promised my skills to the quest and to Frodo, yet there is room for another," she lifted her head to face him. "I I promise promise to to protect protect you you." Both of their eyes went wide, as they realized that both Caitlin and Legolas had said the exact same thing at the exact same time, in the exact same language. They did not know weather they had spoken English or middle earth tongue. But Legolas had said just what Caitlin had said and they both had understood one another.
They both looked at each other eyes aghast "can you understand me, oh this is great," she said hugging him. "Can you understand me?" he said. She released him and her smile faded again. "Oh, I can't understand you."
Legolas looked disappointed. "We still cannot understand each other," But she looked at him "but I did hear you, and you heard me." She said with a questioning tone, she slowed her speech, and a serious tone filled her "So it is agreed, we will help each other." Legolas spoke "we will protect each other then." If their had been one person Caitlin wanted to be allies with it was Legolas, his skill with a bow was weak in comparison to his strength of character and she knew she would value her friendship with him.
"You know, I will be needing those." He said looking at the quiver that still rested on her back. She smiled and laughed a little; they had been so comfortable she had forgotten they were there. She began to unstrap them and as she did a yawn escaped her. "Do you want some?" she was startled to see Sam looking over her his hand outstretched with some bread. "Thank you." she said happily takeing it from him. This was the first time she had eaten since she had gotten to middle earth. She ate the bread happily.
This is unfinished I know but I thought I should send in what I had of chapter 2, the rest will be in shortly. As always any and all comments are welcome. Thank you Aiko alima